Overheard in New York - The voice of NYC

[applegrove]

Girlfriend to boyfriend: "Remember the other day when you told me I had a fat ass and I didn't curse you out? So now you gonna buy me something".


Small boy, loudly, after some take-off turbulence JFK: "The plane is going down... Everybody hug!"


Shabby-looking blue collar mom to distinguished older Indian woman: "Ohhh! I have always wanted to go to Bollywood! I love East Africa and Asia! I wanted to buy a bonsai tree, but they are way too expensive."


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[meeshrox]

1. This is like texts from last night, isn't it? Oy! n/t

[snagglepuss]

2. Nothing beats a New Yorker I overheard a number of years ago in the Louvre.

I was in a gallery featuring Rembrant's self protraits. A woman with a very New York accent piped up in an otherwise silent room, "OMG OMG he's an egomaniac, an egomaniac. Just look at him he's an egomaniac."

[applegrove]

3. LOL!

[LibertyLover]

4. In 1979 my mom and I went to China

At the time the only way to get there if you were an American was to go on a tour run by an educational institution. We got lucky and joined a tour for University of Arizona alumni who needed more warm bodies to fill the quota. There were a number of interesting individuals in the non-alumni group including an older middle-aged couple from New York City. Everything the woman saw was "mind boggling", usually said in a very loud, very New York accent. If you wandered away from the group and were trying to find them again, all you had to do was listen for it.

[HappyMe]

5. lol! "He's late. He was supposed to meet us

at the blood bank at 4. I don't know where he is." I overheard this waiting in line at the mom & pop grocery.
I so wanted to hear the rest of this.